There are few things more frustrating than a dropped call. At the keynote event during OpenStack Barcelona, OPNFV rose to the challenge of handling a network failover in a rather dramatic way using its fault management framework, Doctor. Having made a call from on stage on a mobile device, OPNFV Executive Director Heather Kirksey collaborated with OpenStack Chief Operating Officer Mark Collier began to cut the cables from the 5G network core set up on stage in order to demonstrate how the latest version of OpenStack has integrated OPNFV’s fault remediation project, Doctor.

On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, Kirksey explores how today’s teleco industry is changing for the better with the innovations brought forth by Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufuNosD8V8&t=1s

In her new role as Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Abby Kearns aims to not only continue the growth that the platform has seen, but to bolster and inspire the developer community throughout 2017.

On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, Kearns discussed with TNS Founder Alex Williams how Cloud Foundry has brought its service broker API into the forefront of its toolkit to help developers connect their services quickly and simply in an ecosystem that is all about cross-platform compatibility, and highlights some of the future goals of the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

As OpenStack and its surrounding community continues to grow, many organizations are asking how they can increase the diversity of their teams and improve the health of the OpenStack and open source communities.

In today’s episode of The New Stack makers, we hear from two of the women helping companies to succeed in these areas, HPE Developer Advocate & Community Architect Lisa Marie Namphy and OpenStack Ecosystem Technical Lead Ildiko Vancsa. Vancsa and Namphy joined TNS Founder Alex Williams at OpenStack Summit Barcelona to explore how the challenge of creating more diverse and open communities is being addressed in OpenStack today.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4TKLM2fplrY

At Kubecon 2016, Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda discuss their new start-up Heptio and the challenges of cloud-native computing

As the monitoring landscape continues to evolve, many of today’s organizations are wondering how these advances to how data is collected, used, and stored will affect them.

In today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, New Relic CPO Jim Gochee highlighted what developers and enterprises alike can expect in their progress toward digital transformation. One of the ways that New Relic is addressing these concerns is by hosting events such as the FutureStack conference kicking off today in San Francisco, California.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GUvRGB1m4Tk

As the OpenStack community continues to grow, there remains discussion surrounding how to best bring issues of both diversity and best practices to the table. In today’s episode of The New Stack Makers recorded at OpenStack Summit Barcelona, Huawei IT Research and Development Lab Cloud Technologist Rochelle “Rocky” Grober debunks some of the common myths surrounding open source communities and diversity initiatives, how OpenStack can better streamline its practices and experiences to be more user-friendly, and how to better facilitate cross-project communication not only between OpenStack projects, but the open source community as a whole.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers hosted by TNS Founder Alex Williams, HPE VP of Technology and Cloud Consulting Services Tom Norton explores how HPE customers are utilizing both OpenStack and HPE to transform their infrastructure to a more cloud-native ecosystem.

With the rise of containers and microservices in the enterprise, Norton goes on to highlight how users are making the most of OpenStack to build and provision their own cloud-based environments with additional tools such as Docker, Mesosphere, and more.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers we caught up with Intel Cloud Software Senior Developer Ruby Loo to learn more about the daily life of an OpenStack project core manager in her work with OpenStack Ironic, the future of bare metal provisioning with OpenStack Ironic, and hear more about Loo's decades of experience working in the upstream OpenStack community.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlrBtZFBYw

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we explore some of the latest developments for the NGINX platform leading up to OpenStack Summit Barcelona, NGINX's continued growth of its open source version, and how the commercial NGINX+ platform hopes to enable enterprises to take their business to the next level.

NGINX CEO Gus Robertson, NGINX Head of Products Owen Garrett, and NGINX CMO Peter Guagenti join TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson at this year's OpenStack Summit in Barcelona to discuss the above topics and more.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3ZM2HyrQPn4

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we are joined by HPE VP of Cloud and Channel Bobby Patrick and HPE VP of Product Management Sarwar Raza to explore the latest OpenStack strategies from HPE, including the future of HPE and OpenStack, its approach to a rapidly changing market, and developing hardware and software to power customer infrastructures.

The New Stack hosted a day of podcasting at this year's OpenStack Summit in Barcelona, Spain to hear from some of today's most influential community voices surrounding how OpenStack is being put to use in today's enterprises.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOe-ezggCXM